Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-11
mo PLUM FOR TEXAS.
Maxey, Mills and ireland, Texas
Three Candidates for Interstate
Commerce Commissioners.
General IBpTessi9n that the South viii
Get But One Commissioner, Who
WIlf be an AIabaafsn.
Point Ma6e In the Minority Report Of Mr..
5uchauc,n of tfse Curtin StTke In.
VesIiCatiOa Committee.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE. COMMISSIONERS.
Special TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March l0.-There Is 8
good deal of comment over the doiay OF
the President IL appointing the COMMITS
siOners under the inte-stste commerce
bill. As & Democratic Hsemoer said to-
night, the time when the bill goes into
effect is rapidly approaching, snd the
members of the commission oRght to De
sole to get together, organize and learn
each others views before they will De
called upon to officially act. TIE strange
Thug is that the President does not seem
to have settled his aim upon = single
member Of me commission. There ma
perhaps be an exception 10 tsH csse OF
Colonel MORRISON, VINO II Is asserted
BY his friends, will be the chairman
OF the commission. 1t is fact
that no such intimatioH has been conveyed
to him by the President. II Mr.. Morrir
son is appointed it will be az the Ssrnest
request Of Speaker Carlisle, VINO told the
President in very emphatic terms that he
must appoint the Illinois eX-member. He
represented that Mr.. Morrison had moth
ing. that he had been outraGeously
treated by the prJtectiOnists in his dis
election, aud said thai the free-trade
wing Of the Democratic Ierty demanded
that Mr.. Morrison should be appointed.
/ is stated that the President said ne
would comply with MI. CaT!isIe's request,
though, as has been said, ne naS not init
mated mis- intention to Colonel Morrison.
Judge Cooley of Michigan, who, it was
sup .Osed, would be me OF
the commission has, i, IS said,
peen discarded because OF q protest re
Ceiyed GgqinS- his appointment because
he was q railroad lawyer. Ar. Charles
=. Clark OF Boston, who It was expected
would be solicited to represent New Eng
land, has Withdrawn MS paper aud Is out
of inc race. There are three candidates
from Texas, each Of whom Senator Rea-
Gan is said TO have recommended, namely
Ex-senator MaXey, Governor ireland and
Hon Roger Q. Mills. While Il was at
drst thought tnIt the President would
permit NJ. + agaI as author of the bill
to name one of the commissioners, it is
no. believed now that any one frCm Texas
will be appointed. This IS the feeling of
the Texas delegation. At one time
it was asserted positively that John
z. swift would be appointed
from the Pacific slope. but those who
ought to be in II position 10 know now
assert thai be has been disc Irded, and
that no one from that section will be ap-
pointed 4 gentleman who spent two
hours at the White House last night said
to THE AZETTB CORES pendent to-day
that he knew the President Lad not set
tied upon 8 single name. States have
been made up. which seemed all right,
only TO be broken when il was discovered
that to nearly every man there was some
objection, and there can be no
safe prediction until the entire
commission is officially announced.
81 think" contiuued the gentleman,
"COlonel Morrison will be one and ex-
Railroad Commissioner Bragg of Ala
bams Will be another, though l am not
sure of Bragg, for it is said be is as hostile
to the railroad corporations as Judge
Cooley is lenient toward them. I think
one member will be taken from PennsYl-
vania, bnt have no idea who it will be-"
BUCHANaN's MINORITY REPORT.
WASHING ron, March 0-Mr. Buchan-
an Of the Curtin labor committee, in the
minority report, says the ms 0rity report
fails to take into account the important
fact that the men had serious grievances,
such as 8 reduction OF wages lower than
the agreed rate, and the nOE-payment OF
extra compensation for overtime; that
complaints were laid 10 the assemblies,
but that with one exception Martin Irons
failed to present them TO the heads o. the
roads that the men were ignorant Of this
fact; and that had they known it they
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